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From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] grep: --full-tree
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Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> To make the reconciliation  even more difficult, some git commands
>> will also work on out-of-tree paths.
> 
> I think people know my feeling towards "diff --no-index".  It makes many
> nice features invented in git to people who do not use "git" (e.g, to
> compare files outside of control of git using --color-words).  If it
> happened in an ideal world, it wouldn't have been done as a patch to "git"
> but to something like "GNU diff" to benefit people who do not even want to
> install "git".  But unfortunately that wasn't the way it was done.
> 
> It has turned out to be an unnecessary maintenance burden ever since it
> was applied and every time we needed to change small things to "git diff".
> I would not be very unhappy if we need to ejected it from "git diff" if it
> turns out to hinder the necessary UI changes too much.
> 

git-diff aside, I would be much happier with git's interface, and I 
think new/occasional users would be also, if it was consistent across 
all of git commands. And even more so if git's conventions matched most 
other commands on my system of choice.